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TOO MUCH PHILOSOPHY.
MI. Dow.er'. Spill. Of Investigation I..,,

Mr.. DowserN Spirit OF Investigation IS,r,
y Ills VITO Good GIRL.
my husband cost me good girl la,,
week by one OF his wllims," said Mrs
Bowscr. u happened to wonder aloud
during the evening II Bridget had pu, her
bread to rise, when hc promptly In.
quircd:
q r.! "'Mrs. Bowscr, do YOU know why bread
riscsy
"'Bccause Of the yeast? "
"l,nt why does tho yeast expand the,
doughf t5l5 Wv
q "'l3ccausc Il does. 9.t,l
".Exactly. You also 1.-Two because you
do, ind that's all you know about IL
You ought TO DO ashamed OF your Irno'
rance OF natural philosophy. III SEQ Il
the girl knows any better
went out and inquired.
"'l,rldgct, have you put the bread to
rise = M ,,.5, ,T'
"Ycs, sir !. MA ."I.
".Do you expect 1t to riser
wOf COURSE
l"Why don't you expect It to fallY
STARE you running this kitchcny' she
sharply demanded. -
"VfrtualIy, yes. My object is 10 see
how well YOU. arc posted on natural NH.
losophy. Why does bread rise instead OF
fall Y 1,5 5}R "
Because It's a fool, and I'm another
for staying In place where man is al.
lowed to hcn.lussy about the kitchen,
III lOnvc IN Tim mnrntnvv
G"And leave she did, and NIL tho consola.
ton got from Mr.. Bowser rs he came I'm
TO dinner was Its good thing she lef
She might have mixed something together
which would have caused our deaths
Come now, hurry up the dinner. "-De.
troit Free Press.
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO

With It's half-century's record Of
ABSOLUTE lMPARTlALlTY, It's
unparalleled achievements In ADJ
VANCfNG THE STANDARD OF
AMERICANA u RAILROADS and Its
UNQUESTlONEDt ATTITUDE as
regards. the demands Of the travel
ing public has beyond dispute long
stood at the very head In popular
estimation. z +
1t Is not altogether Improbable
that. In view Of the financial sue
cess achieved under the steadily
maintained i, y..s q
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MI. Boxer sur surveyed mo 4 for some

moments In amazcment. WI M
swell, you air a 1ire.eater and no mis-,
take, young Teller, to want to have bout
with The toughest man In these parts.
You may get out all right II Jim don't
turn up, but blanc me II l want 10 DO
around Of he does" E..
But tho smooth mountain whlskey
had given nc a good deal Of courage,
and I was not to be put out by Mr..
Boxers mournful predictions, SO l
walked over TO Jim Smiths girl and en-.
gagged her for the next reel. She was n
fine specimen Of tho rural coquette and
managed her grea. black eyes In quite an
artful way, considering how few her
social advantages had been.
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good on my feet until ! gets about five
nngcrs O. tanglcfoot inter my cistcrn,"
meaning, suppose, by that his system"
The supper.room was at one time
probably used as the store.house from its
dimensions, and tho tables had been i'm
provised for tho occasion out Of planks
laid on rough log treadles and covered
with sheets of unbleached muslin. 1t
was lit by glittering tallow dips IA luxury
only INDUCED in on festive occasions)
stuck In bottles resting III brackets made
out of shingles nailed 10 the posts in the
room. ~
In one corner of the shed stood bar.
rel, on which were two demijoh and
row Of tin cups. Here the host of the
evening, Mr.. Wink Nixon, dispensed
hospitality. He had on flaming red
shirt, and his face looked like a baked
apple so scanned was 1t with wrinkles.
He was a jolly-looking old fellow, and
one Of the liveliest men Of seventy ever
saw. "You amt seen Mandy yet, have
yer" he asked us after we had comforted
the inner man with q copious draught of
the smooth mountain whiskcy. We &C.
knowledged we had not had the pleasure
of meeting his daughter yet, having just
arrived. "Wcll, you want to sec her"
said the old man with paternal pride. II
sent all the way 10 town to git her dress
fer this show, and she's looking as fine
as tine-as one of them women in the
cigarette signs" that evidently repre-
scnting to his mind the acme of art.
We cleaned our boots Of the soil Of
travel accumulated in coming to the
party, and entered the main part of the
house. Imagine room about twenty
feet long and ten broad, withgreat smoke.
stained rafters, and lit by torches Of resin
Gus pine sticks in inches In the wall and
tallow dips. At one end of the room
seated on barrels were two venerable
darkies scraping on fiddles and wagging
their snowy heads to and fro to the music
or rather the squeaking they drew from
the instruments in their hands.
Along the sides of the wall were ar
ranged a series of benches crowded
with people who surveyed the move
mcnts OF their friends who capered about
on the sanded floor with glances of envy
and longing.
4 The girls who were dancing were most
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Captain LARGO arrived this morning in his
new tishing.boat from weeks cruise to the
different islands that lie in the channel on a
fishing expedition, and while Off The east end
Of Santa Cruz island Yesterday he caught a
s0o.pound jew fish. The fish was CAPTURED
under. peculiar circumstances. At the time
Captain LARGO was. dragging his seine for rcd
fish, and discovering that hc was hooked on
to something Of great strength, for his boat
was fairly, flying through the water, no COM
n, the work Of taking in his netting.
me nearer he got to the monster the more
vicious tho fish pulled I, at times he would
come to the surface, and with splash down
no would 50 to the depths Of fifteen futhoms,
Owing 70 its cumbersome build It soon be-
came exhausted, md after 4 little tho levia.
!han was secured BY rope being fastened to
found the jew fish had swallowed tw ,I "a.
pound rcd fish that had become lust in tho
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AS FAIR AS a uoUn1.
But She Toyed Very Carelcssly with Il
Preccpts of Lindley Murray.

But She Toycd Very CarelcssIy with the
freccpts of Lindley Murray.
She swept into bridge car bound for
Brooklyn with n qrcenly mir, and the con
ductor, when his eyes fell upon her, drew
four long breaths in succession and then
wliistled. 5{.i4 MN !5s55 y -:
5, She was n madrigal q spring pocm.g n
dream, n creature divine, beside whom the
danes to whose eyebrows the poets Of the
Inst century pcnned bilious sonnets looked
like kitchen maids. She WINS accompanied
by u blase youth, who seldom smoke and
who wore al mir of utter WEAKNESS TINT led
many, of the passengers to infer that lie
must be the proof-rcader on n comic weekly.
Not word was spoken until the car had
nearly reached Brooklyn. During this pcriod
inc male passengers grcctlily drank IN the
beautiful vision before them, Then the
youth bent over and addressed few earnest
words to his fair companion. She drew her
seli up and all the men in that end Of the car
held their brcaths in tho hope of hearing her
voice. They were gratifeI Out from her
ruby lips these words came slowly, swcctly.
and with musical cadence rs sweet ms H.
sound Of the dinncr-bcll In a Second: avenue
boarding house: < IS IS q y -
~ ain't not, and shan't do nothn' Of the
kind, ncithcr!'' 81 a ID s IL = .''e
!, When this storm Of negatives swept over
the car 1t left silence in its track that was
only broken when the guard yelled out in
sepulchral tones - Passengers for the elevntci
keep their seats !'--Neo York Mail. -
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4 Your Friends Know You Too Well.
Friendship isyery poetic and romantic and
all that, but as a general thing when n man
wants to borrow SO he will do better IL he
goes to an cquaintance.-Bos Journal.
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!, Scarcity Of .yyhitc El,nl,nnt..

Z. A gentleman who has been in the land
from whence the white elephants nre sup;
posed to come says that in l4O0 years only,
twenty-five animals deserving this distinc-j
elephant ever seen outside Of its native land
was exhibited $50 years ago in Holland. Il.
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quite q tonic in itself. The men were
Inc specimens of manhood, but clumsy
OF course in their movements, dane
ing with n gathering noise that
va Mt times deafcning. Most of them
were chewing tobacco SO that the
sandcd floor, toward tho close Of the
evening, looked anything but pictur-
csquc. Mandy Nixon was pointed
out to me with pride by her fathcr-a
raw.boned, clumsy-looking creature with
n face rs placid us Dutch clock, and who
never seemed to know what to do with her.
feet. Twas not surprised when caught
sight of Mr.. Ni1on's treasure that there
had been few proposals for her hand.
= | was busy looking at the strange scene
before me and the dancers who were
swinging their heels to the tune Of Money
Musk" when Jim Boxer touched nc on
the arm and called my attention to q girl
who, was seated oil by herself in an old
armchair near tho door and whom no
ono asked to dance or paid any attention
to. She had the clear pink and white COM
plcxion OF the mountains and was dressed
neatly, almost artistically, in a Powered
cHi'toTlC uTcSS Will pullcu slccFeS anu
short whist, which, though made evil
IDENTIFY by unskilled hands, could not hide
the supple, graceful form 1t covered.
. THAT there young woman" said Mr..
Boxer, in whisper, lis Jim Smiths gal.
uc's dead gone on her, If he Is a moon.
sinner, though she's playin' him fast and
loose" IiSs. "a, q! 81
"But why does no one dance with her y
I asked. 81 4 "a
"Why, they're all afcarcd to. You sec,
Smiths expected here tonight, and If he
seen another man maxim up TO his gal,
why there's no KNOWN but what he
might pull bead on him and drop him.
,.lim's mighty handy with his gun an a
dead shot, and lie amt no respecter Of
laws nor nobody" -,AsisiS3, ISL
well, that may be all true, Mr.. Boxer,
but MS ! see she Is tho only girl here
without partner l am just going to ask
her II she will let nc have the pleasure
of the next reel" said, "for am de;
ltermined to get O dance in somehow" -.
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hTTAiNME:i-.
CLINTON scoLLAnD.

Through many a seasons gradual chang
Tho muse | Strovc 10 find; XXI.
In vain o'cr wide leagues did | range,
!. She ilcd a,lown the wind. n
From love some solacc then sought;
Alas the wofiIl day;
Whcnc'cr to capture him l thought,
lie fitted fast away. "g..
but now both song and love arc mine,
have not cen to choose;
Sweet, lin those peerless cycs of thine,
Thou art my love and muse. NJ.
--Nep York Home journal.
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FAIR PLAY ALL AROUND

So dear to the American Idea Of
square deal, 1t Is good thing that
this necessity has been realized
and the great power Of Congress In
voked to bring them to a proper
sense of the situation. The
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. -. ~. vi. ItOpWi0ht<h aoo.l y III. ,.|.t.a
STTTKROG's Hollow Is tho poetic name
Sle(, given to small settlement In tho
6Hg3- mountains of Virginia. 1t lies
miles away from civilization, and In a
region where every road seems to end
abruptly in jungle and you must
carve your way along to any desired dcs.
,lnation by slow and painful degrees.
Frogs Hollow is called settlement by
courtesy, forit consists Of but four houses,
ablncksmith shop, and general store and
hotel combined, all in more or less dilap.
dated condition, and standing in valley
surrounded by towering pines that US.
sumo strange and weird shapes when
seen by moonlight.
l was on my way TO look up some TO-.
bacco interests when my horse lost his
shoe, and I was compelled, somewhat re.
luctantly, to spend night at Frogs lIol.
low in the wcntlicr-bcatcn old road house
which did duty as a hotel. Tho landlord
was visibly worried over my presence,
and II was with some hesitation that he
showed mic into Il room about six feet
square in the gables and furnished with
n pinc-nccdle mattress and ornamcntetl
with q dado OF smoked hams and tlitches
of bacon, which made the air very appc.
tizinp with strange combination Df
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He B y zz5 9,

Is still, however, the only line RAINING
Limited Express trains, without extra
charge, from tho Great Riucrs and
Lakes Of the West oucr the Alleghanies
10 tho Sea. IN fact, it is THE ONLY
;, LINE I'M. IN tho country running limited
fast trains anywhere upon which the
rule is strictly adhered to Of not max
ing an extra money rate for fast time.
On the B. q 0. the best that modern
railroad progress can attain is giuen
for the regular fare, and no thought Of
adding fancy figures. 1t is tho only
line bctwecn The East and the Vest via
!; Washington, and the only line passing
through Tho, National Capital en- route.
lis tho only line through the historic
!! and jamously beautiful Valley Of the
Potomac, NTH Harper's Ferry en- route,
/. and yell indeed is it named
t~- , -
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Of them pretty. They had on neat calico

! dresses III ad c
very simply and
wore their hair
drawn back
from their fore
head and tied in
n simple knot at
the back of the
head. These
mountain girls
all seemed to
have dazzling
compilations.
the result of
plenty Of excr-
else and breath
ing the strong,
piny air Of the
hills, which is
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Educate the Children to, Appreciate Him.
Al Or. Henry D., Cosswcll, the San Francisco
millionaire, Inns given 100000 to founda
trade school for boys and girls In thu, civ
FdnsdS Citv Times.
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Tho Faith 81 a Boston s. d, Relic.

!; Hc--Do you really believe in my love? !,f
b Shell do For we believe what we cannot
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r Ticket Agents every furnish iniorma'
ton, rates, etc, etc, mi Is sure to lend to 4
swing OF money to become posted thoroughly
as to tho advantages OF the baltimore md ono
for trip anywhere between the East and the
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Her conversation was very limited, but

snc danced with a great deal OF grace,
displaying her fine figure to an advantage.
and altogether made very agreeable
partner. ~ gi,ll1'r K
175 We were in tho middle Of tho dance,
md the flddlers were scraping away at
their flddles the lively tune Of "Shoo Fly.
when ! became aware, instinclivcly, that
someone was looking at mo from the
window, and turning belleld tall mount
aincer with red beard leaning on his
rillc and surveying nc with a half mock.
ing expression in his face. =. i 10 ~
l don't know how It was, but I felt that
the man in the window was Jim Smith,
md this fact, ! unhesitatingly add, madc
mo feel decidedly nervous; however, tho
dance ended just there and tho man with
the red beard disappeared rs mysleriously
us he had come.
l took my little mountain.pink over to
q secluded portion OF the ballroom and
had soon forgotten all about Mr.. Smiths
malevolcnt glanccs in listening to the
girl MS she prattlcd on in her naive way
about herself and how every man in tho
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AN ALL~NIGHT PARTY.


ny ERNEST DE- LANCEy rIERsoN.
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4, II aint not, and shan't do nothn' Of the
SOWING THE SEED,

Our thoughts, our. words, our actions, arc
but seeds, 92S isFFis Z,
Which s9w wat at random, day by day, may
a a ma harvest great Of good and evil deeds,
When gathered in from off the worlds
Then ,1 let the seeds We SOW today DO pure;
B They fall into the world, and though our
~ 4 eyes h 3f i q II 81 (1aa
GROW dlm, and bodies FIJI, they shall endure
i; An " multiply. reap beyand the skies.
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"A hog may be a squealer, but he never.
gives anything away,-Mtru Hdwn Ntn, -.
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Some kinds of snakes have rafting rmI
timc.-Iinsbnry Chronicle. Telegraph.
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BANGOR, May 5.--Thc seasons logging
operations on the rcnobscot are over now !;
the ax swingcrs are out Of the woods anG
the bar-rooms Of Bangor have rcaped thcii
usual harvest, while the supply of spruce
gum is literally rcplcnished, and every
school girl in town can chew to her hearts
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In returning thanks to you for my miraculous
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At the age Of taree months rash made It's
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